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Toby
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 Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:28 pm Post subject: Having a Baby? |
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| If myself (UK) and my wife (Korean) have a baby here in Korea, what nationality would it be? |
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SuperHero
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 12:51 am Post subject: |
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YOu go to your embassy and register the baby's birth - there is some beaurocratic BS to deal with but do it. You wife registers baby at the dong office everything is groovy. sometime before the kd turns 18 they must choose one nationality as Korea does not allow dual citizenship beyone 18 years of age.
Congrats... |
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riverboy
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 2:49 am Post subject: |
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| I think you would call it Kinglish. |
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sadsac
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:13 am Post subject: |
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The info you have been given is correct, but also understand that should you choose Korean nationality for you child if it is a son, then he will be required to perform compulsory national service. Though that is a long way down the track.  |
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fidel
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Location: North Shore NZ
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 4:34 am Post subject: |
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| sadsac wrote: |
| The info you have been given is correct, but also understand that should you choose Korean nationality for you child if it is a son, then he will be required to perform compulsory national service. Though that is a long way down the track. |
Not true, if he gives up his Korean nationality before the age of 18 , and removes himself from the family registry. |
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Homer
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 5:41 am Post subject: |
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Until it turns 18. Then he or she will have to choose a nationality unless Korea recognizes dual citizenship with the UK.
Congrats on the baby as well!
Our baby will be born in March! |
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Derrek
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 6:19 am Post subject: |
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| I was told that girls don't have to choose at 18. |
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SuperHero
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Derrek wrote: |
| I was told that girls don't have to choose at 18. |
I have a daughter and was told she will have to choose when she is 18 |
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Toby
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:33 am Post subject: |
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Hold the congrats for a moment or three...
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| If myself (UK) and my wife (Korean) have a baby here in Korea, what nationality would it be? |
But thanks anyway.
So, if I get this straight, we can have a baby here, and as long as we register it with both the embassy and her dong office, then the baby will have a dual nationality until the age of 18? And then they have to chose what they want to be as long we tell the embassy and the dong office and it takes itself off the family register, if it decides to be British? |
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